Kevin Esterly, Amy Lu. (Allentown Police Department)
A week after a 16-year-old Pennsylvania girl went missing , her family has revealed more details of the girl’s relationship with a man who disappeared at the same time.
Amy Yu was last seen on March 5 at a school bus stop near her house in Allentown. The alert issued by police say she is believed to be traveling with 45-year-old Kevin Esterly — a family friend who had signed her out of school 10 times between Nov. 13 and Feb. 9.
Amy’s mother, Mui Luu, told CBS News that she and her children had met Esterly years ago at church. He is married with four children, one of them a daughter close to Amy’s age. Amy became close to the Esterlys, even going on vacations with them.
The friendship was broken on February 9, when Luu found out that Esterly had been taking Amy out of school. According to a police affidavit, Amy had listed the man as her stepfather on school records. Luu is a single mother.
Last Monday around 7 a.m., their mother dropped Amy and her younger brother, John, at the bus stop. John told WFMZ-TV that his sister walked away without saying where she was going. In a TV interview, he deemed the girl’s relationship with Esterly “disgusting.”
Stacey Esterly, 35, told police she last saw her husband at 6 a.m. that day and that he’d taken personal documents and withdrawn $4,000 from her account.